Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play.
Charity is taking an ugly girl to lunch.
There are some people whom you have in life who have the capacity for real, passionate commitment to something, and sometimes you may be passionately committed to the same thing.
Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.
And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women – not just people who belong to the union.
I don’t think there’s anything to be admired in lying, cheating or philandering. But there might be something to be admired in not burning people at the stake because they have those weaknesses.
When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.
To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together.
I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
I mourn the loss of the gigantic screen, but I guess you can’t have everything.
Movies are fun, but they’re not a cure for cancer.
Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that’s what’s happening. They either go, or they don’t go. It’s all politics. It’s all demographics.
You’d rather have nothing than settle for less.
Even the promiscuous feel pain.
My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn’t stay in, because he couldn’t make enough money.
Government is not show business.
It’s very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives.
In a way, I’d rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an in-depth interview. I’d rather ride down the street on a camel nude. In a snowstorm. Backwards.
The highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.